Thus inwardly married, he has remained outwardly
a bachelor."
Mr. Greaves is described to us by another correspondent as
being "the soul of his circle, a prophet of whom the world heard
nothing, but who has quickened much of the thought now current in the
most intellectual circles of the kingdom. He was acquainted with
every man of deep character in England, and many both in Germany and
Switzerland; and Strauss, the author of the `Life of Christ,' was a
pupil of Mr. Greaves, when he held conversations in one of the
Colleges of Germany, after leaving Pestalozzi. A most remarkable
man; nobody remained the same after leaving him. He was the prophet
of the deepest affirmative truths, and no man ever sounded his
depths. The best of the thought in the London Monthly Magazine was
the transcript of his Idea. He read and wrote much, chiefly in the
manner of Coleridge, with pen in hand, in the form of notes on the
text of his author. But, like Boehmen and Swedenborg, neither his
thoughts nor his writings were for the popular mind. His favorites
were the chosen illuminated minds of all time, and with them he was
familiar.
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